Home-invasion trial starts

Opening arguments were made Monday in the trial of a 22-year-old woman accused in a deadly home-invasion robbery last year in Edgewood.

Amanda Knight has pleaded not guilty to firstdegree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of first-degree assault. She’s the second of four defendants to go to trial in the slaying of Jim Sanders, 43.

Prosecutors allege Knight and Kiyoshi Higashi went to Sanders’ home April 28, 2010, after Sanders listed a diamond ring for sale on Craigslist. The two posed as buyers and, after they entered the home, Higashi pulled a gun.

Higashi and Knight bound Sanders and his wife, Charlene, and then signaled to two men waiting outside to enter the house, according to prosecutors.

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